A Highland Wedding

Gregor I heard what Claire did to Anna, I knew Alexei was furious with me. There were so many people furious with me. I guess I couldn’t blame them I did create that monster. “I can help ye look for her. I know Claire, at least I used to know Claire.” Alexei just gave me a blank look, if looks could kill that one would have killed me. “You have done enough Gregor.” Something in him changed, he was always aloof and indifferent toward me. Now he was downright hostile. I suppose I shouldn’t blame him. Sighing I tried once more, I was partially responsible for this mess I needed to do something about it. “Maybe I can help the authorities….” “I am going to stop you right there Mackenzie, we are not getting the authorities involved. This is a family matter and you are not family.” He hung up and I was left with a deadline. What did he mean it was a family thing? Anna was going to be my family; we had a good thing going until Claire showed up over Christmas. She sent everything into a tailspin. I looked at the wedding ring that was on the table and then at the engagement ring I never got to give Anna. She was pregnant with my child, then she lost it. Now Claire is pregnant with my child, after a drugged night of passion. I was under the impression that I was marrying Anna and spending the night with her, however, I found out that it was Claire. I dialed Claire’s number and it kept ringing and went to voicemail. Where was she? Why did she do this? I would have gone with her, if it spared Anna, I would have done anything to keep her safe. Dialing Jer’s number, I hoped he would at least tell me what was happening and not completely ice me out. The number kept dialing and went to voicemail as well. It seemed as if no one was going to answer my calls. I was ready to throw the phone against the wall, no one was taking my calls and no one was talking to me. I hated being on the outside looking in. My phone rang and I looked at the number to see it was Daniel. “Hey Daniel, I was just getting ready to call ye.” He was going to be the last one I called, if Jer wasn’t with him then I didn’t know what else to do. “You called Jer, he wanted me to tell you to stop calling. Look, I like you Gregor but this is not the time to be getting involved in all of this.” I pulled the phone away from my ear and stared at it. “How could ye tell me not to get involved?” I was flabbergasted by all of this. “Just listen to me Gregor, the less you know about what is going on the better. If you hear from Claire, just tell me alright?” Sighing I guess this was the best I could do. “Yes, that is fine, if I hear from Claire, I will let ye know.” The line when dead and I was left alone again wondering what if and what more I could do. I threw the phone at the wall, what more could I do? I apologized, I begged, and I pleaded. What more did they want from me? It was not like I wanted her to actually get kidnapped. I didn’t know Claire would do something this crazy. She wasn’t like this and I don’t know when she changed but she slowly turned into this obsessive woman. She was always a little jealous but not to this point. Sighing, it was my fault. The guilt is going to nag at me and I will always feel like this. I just hated feeling like I was helpless. I never wanted to be helpless, not ever again, and yet here I was.